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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The Moscow Patriarchate is a direct Kremlin asset. If you ask Constantinople they have no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over Ukraine in the first place, the Kyiv Patriarchate does.

Pushkin isn't such an asset, the Kremlin can't tell anyone how to read him and problematise his stance towards Ukrainian rebellion against the Tsar, just as it's possible to read Kant, problematise his racism, and still get lots of value out of it (especially since racism is incompatible with Kantian ethics).

The Russian language also isn't such an asset, the Kremlin can't tell people how to use it, and for what it's worth the Ukrainian army is to a large degree operating in Russian. Are you proposing that units switch to a language the soldiers aren't proficient in? Plenty of Russian-speaking soldiers were born before independence they didn't even learn Ukrainian in school, if born after, they might've flunked the subject.

Pushkin statutes? More complicated. For now I'd say put them into storage or build a box around them so that people don't have to look at them and talk about it after the war, right now the required nuance is a distraction so kick it down the road. Maybe the solution is to move them into a library.

Also FWIW Ukraine did ratify the ECRML. Russian is among 17 recognised minority languages. Being a native Russian speaker and being Ukrainian has never been incompatible, heck Zelensky is one of them. The purported ethnic conflict is a Kremlin narrative. Are we supposed to cancel "Servant of the people" (the series) because it's mostly Russian. Playlist with ENGSUB btw I highly recommend it.